Deflected handle for scissors, &amp;c.



No. 672,014. Patented Apr. l6, I901.

w. SCHEERER. A DEFLEGTED HANDLE F'OR- SCISSORS, 8w.

(Appdcatioxi filed Jan. 13, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILHELM SCHEERER, OF TUTTLINGEN, GERMANY, ASSIGN OR TO THE ACTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT FIIR FEIN MECHANIC, VORMALS JETTER & SCHEERER, OF

SAME PLACE.

DEFLECTED HANDLE FOR SCISSORS, 80C.

:DPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,014, dated April16, 1901.

Application filed January 13. 1900. Serial No. 1,376. m m l- To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM SCHEERER, a citizen of the German Empire,residing at Tuttlingen, in the Kingdom of Wiirtemberg,

Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DeflectedHandles for Scissors, Pincers, &c.; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to instruments such as scissors, pincers, and thelike, and has for its object to so form and shape the handle portionsthat the entire instrument will not be flat on the table, shelf, or itscasing, but a portion or all of the handle or handles will be elevatedfrom the surface on which the instrument rests in order that it may beeasily 2o grasped by one hand only, and, further, that the extremitiesof the handles will better adapt themselves to the fingers during use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a pair of scissors in whichthe handles are deflected in my preferred manner; Fig. 2, a side view ofthe same. Figs. 3 and 4 show a modification in plan and in end View,re-' spectively.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the blades or. and b are pivoted at c in any preferredmanner. The ends of the handles are, preferably, ring-shaped, althoughthey may be in any other usual or suitable form, and they are deflectedor bent longitudinallythat is, each deflected portion crosses the' planein which the two members contact at their pivotal portions. When thisform of an instrument is laid on the table, the deflection extending onthe lower side of one of the members will raise the greater por- 40 tionof the handle portion from the supporting-surface, while the handleportion of the other member will be projected upwardly at an angle withthe main portion of the scissors,

which will easily admit of the admission of the thumb and one or morefingers for grasping the handles of the instrument and in the correctposition for operation.

If preferred, the handles or their enlarged extremities may each be bentin a direction the opposite of that shown-that is, away from the saidplane of contact of the members instead of crossing this plane. In another mode of deflection the ring portions are deflected and bentlaterally and preferably both bent in the same direction, as shown inFigs. 3 and 4.

While the above are my preferred forms of construction, it is evidentthat a variety of other modes of deflection may be devised withoutdeparting from the nature and scope of myinvention. Forinstance, thehandles may be deflected unsymmetrically or only one be deflected, or agreater or less portion of either or both of the handle portions may bedeflected.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. .An instrument such as scissors, pincers, and the like, in which thehandle portions are bent longitudinally away from the plane of contactof the pivoted members, said deflected portions crossing said plane.

2. An instrument such as scissors, pincers, and the like, in which theenlarged extremities of the handle portions are longitudinally deflectedout of the plane of contact of the pivoted members, said deflectedextremities crossing said plane.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILHELM SCHEEREB.

Witnesses HERMAN WAGNER, AUGUST DRAUTZ.

